The latest Outer Banks discovery may have fallen from the sky

A photo of the object that washed ashore in Hatteras, N.C. Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. COURTESY OF ERIN EVERLEE

A photo of the object that washed ashore in Hatteras, N.C. Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. COURTESY OF ERIN EVERLEE

HATTERAS

The latest Outer Banks anomaly turned up on the beach at Hatteras on Sunday afternoon, and it may have fallen from the sky before it washed ashore.

Local authorities and others are generally describing the object as a slab of aeronautical debris.

The white, metal object is about 15 feet long and nine feet wide, according to Deputy Chief Ranger Mike Henry of the Outer Banks National Parks Service. It is curved and shows signs of tearing along one edge.

“It’s a piece of white metal aircraft part,” Henry said Thursday in an interview. “It’s long and it’s slender. It’s got three attachment points on one end of it.”